[HISTORY: Adopted Malone Village Board 2-14-1947.]
No person or corporation shall conduct any moving-picture or
vaudeville show, theatorium or other public place of amusement having
its principal feature moving pictures, with or without musical accompaniment
to the same, nor shall any person or corporation rent any building
for theatre purposes within Malone Village except on the grounds of
the Franklin County Agricultural Society during their annual fair,
without procuring a license therefor, issued under the hand of the
Village Clerk. Any person or corporation owning, operating
or maintaining any such public place of amusement as described in
this section without first having procured a license herein required
shall be liable to a penalty of $25, to be recovered by Malone Village
in a civil action.
Such license shall be granted to such person or corporation
as may be approved by the Board of Trustees. Such license shall continue
in force from the date thereof to the 31st day of August next succeeding
unless sooner forfeited or revoked, and shall specify the person or
persons to whom and the place for which it may be granted and shall
not be assignable or transferable except with the consent of the Board
of Trustees in writing and shall further specify that the same is
granted and accepted subject to the statutes and laws governing the
same and subject to being revoked by the Board of Trustees when, in
their judgment, the conditions on which it was granted shall have
been violated, and such license shall be granted only on payment to
the Village Clerk, in advance, of such sum as the Board of Trustees
may by resolution determine.
No person shall exhibit or assist to exhibit any show, entertainment
or performance not included in the above, for money, within the limits
of Malone Village, except on the grounds of the Franklin County Agricultural
Society during their annual fair, without a license for that purpose,
under a penalty of $25 for each offense, but for the delivery of a
literary, historical or scientific lecture or for entertainment in
connection with a lecture course or for an amateur performance a license
is not required. License when required for any such exhibitions may
be granted upon payment of the following sums, namely: For the exhibition
of a circus, the sum of not less than $50 nor more than $150 per day;
for any other exhibition the sum of not less than $5 nor more than
$25 per day.
